Entente Cordiale scholarships for Law

About the award

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Herbert Smith Freehills is offering one scholarship to French students wishing to study law full-time at Masters level (LLM) in a UK university for the academic year 2019-2020 in the fields listed below:

Business law

International banking and finance law

Intellectual property/technology, media and communications law

Labour law

Energy and infrastructure

Litigation and international arbitration

Tax law

Property law

European or International law

The scholarship can help to fund an LLM programme for a period of 12 months maximum in a British university. The scholarship is awarded for one year only and is not renewable, and must concern studies in the disciplines listed above.

Can I apply?

To be eligible, you must fulfil the following criteria:

As the scholarship is Franco-British, you must have either French nationality or have completed your higher education in France to bac+4

You need to have an academic level of bac+4 in one of the areas of law mentioned in the list above

You need to have an excellent level of English : most universities require a minimum score of 6.5 at the IELTS (International English Language Testing System) test for studies at postgraduate level

You need to be intending to pursue a whole year of full-time study in the UK, and you need to have had at least one application acknowledged by a UK university

You need to have received a conditional offer from a UK university

You need to provide evidence of an excellent academic level and show ambition to become influential in your area of study